Where does Wallace rank among TCHS greats?

This is the time when an answered wish would produce former Trentonian high school boys basketball reporter, Jim Davis.

No better, more knowledgeable writer existed in the state of New Jersey then Davis.

Davis, who passed away in 2004, had a state-wide boys’ basketball poll that everybody in the Garden State respected because they knew that he had witnessed every significant team play. (Davis knew field hockey and Little League baseball, too).

Saturdays were always traveling days when Davis would slip into his car with his wife, or friend, Sherwood, and visit Atlantic City, Paterson Eastside, Christian Brothers Academy, St. Anthony, Bogota, or any place where a good basketball game existed.

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Davis should have been around Tuesday night when Rasheed Wallace set the Trenton Central High School all-time scoring mark, moving ahead of Lew Hill (1,092 points, 1968-71).

Huge deal in the City of Trenton, but Davis would have deciphered the code of Wallace’s significant accomplishment.

By the way, Wallace will add a couple hundred more points before he finally slips out of his red-and-black Tornadoes uniform.

Don’t forget, he passed George Lee (1,036) and Randy “Big Cheese” Corker (1,011) en route to being the highest Trenton High scorer who played all of his games as a Tornado.

No doubt, a lot of Trenton High old-timers have their opinion about where Wallace ranks among former Tornadoes like Lee, Tal Brody, both from the 1961 state championship team, Kenny Nicholson, Nate “The Great from the Garden State” Armstrong, Marco Dillard, Lenny Barber, Sam Randolph and an impressive list of others.

One certainty is that Wallace is indeed a relentless scorer of the ball bolstered by quality 3-point field goal accuracy,

In the next several days, local fans will have the chance to help pick the Trenton Central High School all-time boys basketball team.

Should Steve Worthy move ahead of Armstrong or Corker? Is Trenton High Coach Greg Grant worthy of a high position?

And Wallace, what to do with Rasheed? First team or second-team, or maybe even looking up from the third team?

Trenton High officials honored the Tornadoes Debate Team last night. Now, let the Great Debate begin.